Course: Jr. Combatives™

Once your child accepts the Rules of Engagement, they will be ready to learn the highly effective self-defense techniques featured in the Jr. Combatives course. Based on the same techniques that comprise the Gracie Combatives course (minus the chokes), the Jr. Combatives course is broken down into 33 lessons. In each lesson, we teach you one highly simplified technique as well as all the associated teaching tricks and safety tips that you’ll need to ensure your child learns the technique. Once your child is comfortable with the newly learned technique they will be ready to execute it in combination with all the previously learned techniques in the Bully Battle training exercise featured at the end of the lesson. Once your child can execute all of the Jr. Combatives techniques in combination with one another, they will be ready to move on to the Gracie Combatives adult curriculum (available at GracieUniversity.com)

Testing & Certification

Lead Instructor

Ryron and Rener Gracie are the eldest grandsons of Grand Master Helio Gracie, the creator of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. Their father is Rorion Gracie, one of the world’s foremost experts in self-defense. In 1993, Rorion created the Ultimate Fighting Championship to showcase the supremacy of the family’s self-defense system in a realistic “no holds barred” confrontation against all comers. Rorion’s younger brother, Royce, won 3 of the first 4 UFC tournaments proving that the leverage-based techniques of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu provided the most reliable way to defeat a larger, more athletic opponent. Ryron and Rener were born into this family tradition of testing the art against all challengers.

Rorion introduced his sons to the art as soon as they could walk. As children, they watched him teach private classes in their garage in Southern California. But, it wasn’t until they observed their father and uncles – Royce, Rickson, and Royler – easily winning challenge matches that they began to comprehend fully the effectiveness of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. Even more important, Ryron and Rener recognized the profound impact the family’s art had on all who studied it. The life changing transformations of Gracie University students motivated the brothers to teach the art. While constantly perfecting their physical techniques, they worked equally hard to master the powerfully effective instruction methods developed by their forbearers. In 2003, Grand Master Helio Gracie awarded Ryron and Rener black belts in recognition of their mastery of his unique techniques and teaching methodologies.